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Re:Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable by wumms on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:42AM (#49506360)
> Our dashboard also includes a 220V circuit. That makes it compatible with grid-powered devices (110V in the US, 240V in the UK).

Retro-look nit: all are outdated nominal voltages. The US is 120 V (since the 1960s), while the UK and EU are 230 V (since the mid-1990s).

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Re:Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable by bityard on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:40PM (#49512515)
If we are picking nits, almost every panel in the US and Canada is _both_ 120v and 240v. But even electricians here commonly say "two-twenty" instead of "two-forty."
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